Monthly Archives: December 2009

Take one 18 year old guy who loves girls, jeans, beer, and rock-n-roll music; add a couple of buddies, a bleak home-front in flux, a potent blend of teenage angst/ennui, and the requisite beautiful girl: what do you get? You … Continue reading →

The best films I saw in the past ten years tended to be light on plot, heavy on texture and mood, and usually gorgeously photographed. Films include ones with strange worlds-within-worlds fictions, dreamlike stories, and a high kind of comedy … Continue reading →

The Seattle arts community has suffered a deep loss with the death of Seattle Opera’s Perry Lorenzo. Please take a moment to read this memorial. You just might recognize the face from Perry’s many introductions of our opera and music … Continue reading →

House Manager Northwest Film Forum seeks a house manager for front of the house, box office, concessions and public areas. This is an important position in a busy arts organization in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. The right candidate will have … Continue reading →

I should make it perfectly clear that most of these titles won’t be released until 2010, but here’s my 10 best of 2009. Mind you I’m full of superlatives for these, all cullled from films that I saw for the … Continue reading →

For everyone who, like me, didn’t get enough of the Yes Men a couple weeks ago when we played The Yes Men Save the World, don’t miss this screening of the first Yes Men movie at the Henry Art Gallery. … Continue reading →

Many thanks to KIRO’s Tom Tangney for his permission to re-post this essay in connection with our ongoing Divided Cinema series (which runs through this Wednesday, December 16). Tom was among a handful of American journalists who visited Berlin in … Continue reading →

It’s the last weekend of 69! And what better way to go out than with two monumental westerns? I found some great original reviews of both True Grit and Once Upon a Time in the West, but alas, was out … Continue reading →

Please join Longhouse Media in partnership with National Geographic’s All Roads Film Project and Northwest Film Forum for the December Indigenous Showcase on Saturday December 19th at 5pm at the Northwest Film Forum for the screening of Raven Tales! Raven … Continue reading →

About Northwest Film Forum

Northwest Film Forum is Seattle's premier film arts organization, screening over 200 independently made and classic films annually, offering a year-round schedule of classes for aspiring filmmakers of all ages, and supporting filmmakers at all stages of their careers. The Film Forum brings together a community of individuals dedicated to the best films in Seattle and beyond. You can learn more at nwfilmforum.org.